<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!--

    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
    or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
    distributed with this work for additional information
    regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
    to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
    "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
    with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
    software distributed under the License is distributed on an
    "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
    KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
    specific language governing permissions and limitations
    under the License.

-->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<title>Find Usages Dialog Box</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ide.css" title="Oracle BLAFDoc" type="text/css"/>
</head>

<body>
<p><a id="org.netbeans.modules.refactoring.java.ui.WhereUsedQueryUI" name="org.netbeans.modules.refactoring.java.ui.WhereUsedQueryUI"></a></p>
<div id="NBCSH2921"><!-- infolevel="all" infotype="General" --><a id="sthref376" name="sthref376"></a>
<h1>Find Usages Dialog Box</h1>
<a name="BEGIN" id="BEGIN"></a>
<p>Use to specify search options for the <b>Find Usages</b> command. 
<object classid="java:org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.BrowserDisplayer">
<param name="content" value="http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=nb8200&id=NBDAG552">
<param name="text" value="<html><u>How?</u></html>">
<param name="textFontSize" value="medium">
<param name="textColor" value="blue">
</object>
</p>
<p>The Find Usages dialog box displays the following options for all types of identifiers:</p>

<table summary="Descriptions of identifier options for Find Usages command." dir="ltr" border="1" width="100%" frame="hsides" rules="groups" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<col width="37%" />
<col width="*" />
<thead>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<th align="left" valign="bottom" id="r1c1-t8">Element</th>
<th align="left" valign="bottom" id="r1c2-t8">Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td align="left" id="r2c1-t8" headers="r1c1-t8">
<p>Search in Comments</p>
</td>
<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t8 r1c2-t8">Displays occurrences of the identifier that appear in code comments.</td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td align="left" id="r3c1-t8" headers="r1c1-t8">
<p>Open in New Tab</p>
</td>
<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t8 r1c2-t8">Displays occurrences of the identifier in the Usages tab in the bottom panel of the IDE.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<!-- -->
<p>For classes and interfaces, the Find Usages dialog box displays the following additional options:</p>

<table summary="Descriptions of class and interface options for Find Usages command" dir="ltr" border="1" width="100%" frame="hsides" rules="groups" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<col width="37%" />
<col width="*" />
<thead>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<th align="left" valign="bottom" id="r1c1-t9">Element</th>
<th align="left" valign="bottom" id="r1c2-t9">Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td align="left" id="r2c1-t9" headers="r1c1-t9">
<p>Find Usages</p>
</td>
<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t9 r1c2-t9">Displays all usages of the class.</td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td align="left" id="r3c1-t9" headers="r1c1-t9">
<p>Find All Subtypes</p>
</td>
<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t9 r1c2-t9">Displays usages of all subtypes of the class, including subtypes of subtypes.
<p>Usages of the class itself are not displayed.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td align="left" id="r4c1-t9" headers="r1c1-t9">
<p>Find Direct Subtypes Only.</p>
</td>
<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t9 r1c2-t9">Displays only usages of direct subtypes.
<p>Subtypes of those subtypes are ignored.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<!-- -->
<p>For methods, the Find Usages dialog box sometimes displays the following additional options:</p>

<table summary="Descriptions of method options for Find Usages command." dir="ltr" border="1" width="100%" frame="hsides" rules="groups" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<col width="37%" />
<col width="*" />
<thead>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<th align="left" valign="bottom" id="r1c1-t10">Element</th>
<th align="left" valign="bottom" id="r1c2-t10">Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td align="left" id="r2c1-t10" headers="r1c1-t10">
<p>Find Usages</p>
</td>
<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t10 r1c2-t10">Displays all usages of that specific method in your project.</td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td align="left" id="r3c1-t10" headers="r1c1-t10">
<p>Find Overriding Methods</p>
</td>
<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t10 r1c2-t10">Displays every usage of a method that overrides this method in your project in the output.</td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td align="left" id="r4c1-t10" headers="r1c1-t10">Find Usages and Overriding Methods</td>
<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t10 r1c2-t10">Displays all usages of the selected method and all usages of any method that override it.</td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td align="left" id="r5c1-t10" headers="r1c1-t10">Include overloaded methods</td>
<td align="left" headers="r5c1-t10 r1c2-t10">Displays all overloaded methods in your project.</td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td align="left" id="r6c1-t10" headers="r1c1-t10">
<p>Search from Base Class</p>
</td>
<td align="left" headers="r6c1-t10 r1c2-t10">Displays every usage of that base method in the output.
<p>This option is only relevant if the method for which you are finding usages overrides another method.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<!-- -->
<a id="NBCSH2930" name="NBCSH2930"></a>
<hr><p><b>Related Topics</b></p>
<p><i>Developing Applications with NetBeans IDE</i>, 
<object classid="java:org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.BrowserDisplayer">
<param name="content" value="http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=nb8200&id=NBDAG547">
<param name="text" value="<html><u>&quot;Refactoring Java Projects&quot;</u></html>">
<param name="textFontSize" value="medium">
<param name="textColor" value="blue">
</object>
</p>

<!-- -->
<!-- Start Footer -->


<table summary="" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="left" width="86%"><a href="legal_notice.htm">
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements; and to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0.</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- -->
</body>
</html>
